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fits and starts

See definition of fits and starts on Dictionary.com
  • as inaimless
  • as inspasmodic
  • as insporadic

synonyms for fits and starts

  • desultory
  • erratic
  • frivolous
  • haphazard
  • indiscriminate
  • pointless
  • random
  • accidental
  • any which way
  • bits and pieces
  • blind
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • chance
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • flighty
  • fortuitous
  • goalless
  • heedless
  • hit-or-miss
  • indecisive
  • irresolute
  • objectless
  • purposeless
  • shiftless
  • stray
  • thoughtless
  • unavailing
  • undirected
  • unguided
  • unplanned
  • unpredictable
  • vagrant
  • wandering
  • wanton
  • wayward

antonyms for fits and starts

MOST RELEVANT
  • definite
  • methodical
  • particular
  • sensible
  • specific
  • systematic
  • determined
  • directed
  • goal-oriented
  • motivated
  • pointed
  • purposeful
  • resolute
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How to use fits and starts in a sentence

With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
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No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
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Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
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They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
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He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.
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He paused, then mixed and drank another whiskey-and-soda, lit a cigarette, and resumed.
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So when she clears up a little along towards noon, these three takes a packadero layout an' starts, presumable for Medicine Lodge.
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When the orange-and-red banner was actually replaced by the Stars and Stripes, many in the crowd shed tears.
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The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
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